----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason van Zyl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 7:36 AM Subject: Re: A Todo filter
> > I don't know what to think of the javadoc-style tags. It makes me > > wonder if doclets couldn't be used to implement it, though maybe > > that only works with doc comments? If I used the tags I'd like to > > be able to define my own fields. For example, here it would be > > nice to be able to supply the corresponding bug id for Bugzilla > > when there is one. > > I'd like to keep it really simple right now. Gather ideas > and make something in an couple of hours that produces > something useful. I need to make a BIG TODO list very > soon :) > You know of http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/javadoc/proposed-tags.html and http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/tooldocs/javadoc/overview.html#tag s ? Even Generators for C++ (http://www.sylvantech.com/~talin/projects/scandoc/scandoc.html#ttodo) and Delphi (http://www.time2help.com/online_help/IDH_JavaDocTag_Todo.htm). I dont't know if this is required to work with JDK 1.1, but in theory you should be able to use different/future tools if something like @todo is used. (although the priority is missing from sun's proposal, maybe you should tell them to include that :-) ). But I don't know if Javadoc is fast enough? Last time I tried performance seems to be very bad (back in early 1.1). Oh, I don't know if Javadoc will parse these comments if they don't belong to a class? Would make it impossible to add todo-comments to single lines of source then. Just wanted to be sure you know Sun has thought about it also. Nico
